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• Toronto awarded 2015 Pan Am Games

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  InsideToronto reports Toronto has won its bid to host the 2015 Pan Am Games – meaning that Scarborough will have a new LRT line servicing Malvern, and the Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto will be home to a new-state-of-the-art aquatics centre and athletic facility. read more at the [SOURCE: ...
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• Rower McBean thrilled with Toronto’s Pan Am conquest

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  Few could match Marnie McBean’s enthusiasm when news first broke that Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games The former Canadian rower and three-time Olympic gold medallist, who was also a 1999 Pan Ams champion in Winnipeg, is thrilled to finally see Toronto win its first major international sporting ...
  3 days ago

• Toronto awaits final decision on 2015 Pan Am Games

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  Organizers of the Toronto bid to bring the 2015 Pan Am Games will find out on Friday if the city will be named host of the event. The 42-member Pan American Sports Organization will decide between Toronto, Bogota , Colombia and Lima , Peru at 5:50 p.m. ET. The final bid presentations of the three cities begins ...
  4 days ago

• PanAm Games: the face of Toronto will change

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  When the winning candidate for the 2015 Pan-American Games is announced Friday afternoon, there will be more at stake for Toronto then just sports glory. Improvements to the city’s infrastructure also hang in the balance. Sports facilities would be the immediate beneficiaries of a successful pitch, in ...
  4 days ago

• Torontonians speak out on Pan Am Games

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  Bar patrons in Toronto’s Pape and Danforth avenues area weighed in with their opinions on the consequences that the Pan American Games would bring to the city in terms of tourism, new infrastructure, and sporting spirit. On Friday, Torontonians will be eagerly awaiting a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will ...
  4 days ago

• Pan Am venues could bring opportunities to next generation

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  When Canadian Olympic hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep was growing up, Toronto had a severe lack of sporting infrastructure. That situation could change if it wins the bid to host the 2015 Pan American Games . The winning city will be announced Friday night between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (ET), and a successful ...
  4 days ago

• Toronto to host 2015 Pan American Games?

  
  An Irish Bromance — Authority: 138
  The three cities bidding to host the Games are Bogotá , Colombia; Lima , Peru and Toronto , Ontario. Toronto along with other communities in the area known as the Golden Horseshoe. All are ready with their bids and will make their final presentation to the Pan American Sport Organization (PASO) in Guadalajara, ...
  6 days ago

• Frankie Boyle, Rebecca Adlington and the limits of taste in comedy - Times Online

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  Frankie Boyle, Rebecca Adlington and the limits of taste in comedy - Times Online Here we go again. Only a year after the “Sachsgate” scandal fired a fevered debate about about the limits of what is acceptable in comedy, the topic has floated to the surface again, like a corpse not weighted down properly after ...
  6 days ago

• Canadian athletes strongly behind Pan Am bid

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 547
  One week after officials submitted a beefed-up bid for the Pan American Games, Canadian athletes met in Toronto on Friday to discuss why the city should play host to the 2015 event. Three-dozen current and former Olympians were in attendance, including cyclist Curt Harnett, trampoline gymnast Karen Cockburn, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Five Greatest Athletes of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

  
  US OPEN TENNIS — Authority: 136
  A national hero in Maryland and the United States, he has won 16 Olympic medals. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he broke the 36-year-old record of Mark Spitz with eight gold Olympic medals. From 2004 to 2008, Michael Phelps has won more Olympic gold medals than many countries (including Ireland, Luxembourg, Iceland, ...
  4 weeks ago

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